Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 234 - Ejaz Hussain

In this episode of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, host – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) are joined by Ejaz Hussain Developer Architect at Advania UK, Microsoft MVP.

In this episode

• Ejaz’s community journey
• Bringing external data to Microsoft 365 and Copilot for Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Graph connectors
• Challenges in bringing external data to Microsoft 365
• How organizations look at Copilot for Microsoft 365 and AI
• How copilots and AI change the way we work
• Tips to stay up to date on the Microsoft 365 platform

References

• Microsoft Graph connectors samples
• Microsoft 365 conference in Orlando
• European Collaboration Summit

This week

• Ejaz – exploring Microsoft Copilot and GPTs, learned Bicep
• Waldek – new preview version of Dev Proxy, new release of CLI for Microsoft 365, learn content
• Vesa – new Viva Connections desktop experience, GA of bot-powered ACEs

Agenda items

00:00 – Intro

01:34 – Interview

41:44 – Weekly articles

56:01 – Closing

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This session was recorded on Monday 29th of January. Session was published on Tuesday 30th of January, 2024.

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Microsoft articles

• Bring virtual connections to life with Microsoft Mesh, now generally available in Microsoft Teams - Nicole Herskowitz (Microsoft)
• What’s new in Viva Insights - January 2024 - Zack Miners (Microsoft)
• Embark on a Seamless Journey to Microsoft 365 with Our Latest Enhancements to Migration Manager - KB Chen (Microsoft)
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/embark-on-a-seamless-journey-to-microsoft-365-with-our-latest/ba-p/4037778 - Loki Meyburg (Microsoft)
• Stay ahead of the game with the latest updates to the Microsoft 365 Developer Program - Kelly Bowen-McCombs (Microsoft)
• Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update – January 2024 - Junjie Li (Microsoft)
• A pro-code guide to build your custom copilot faster - Joey Glocke (Microsoft), Carter Gilliam (TEKsystems) & Ankit Govil (Microsoft)

Community articles

• Fix one of the problems in SharePoint Search - Make Title sortable - Kasper Larsen (Fellowmind)
• 🎯 Copilot for Microsoft 365 Plugins Public Preview – What You Need to Know and Do? - Mahmoud Hassan (Avanade)
• 🎯Microsoft Copilots (All Copilots) - Unified Architecture v1.2 - Mahmoud Hassan (Avanade)
• SharePoint Site Swap Fails – But a Fallback Position - Marc Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting)
• 365 Message Center Show - Changes to Website tab in Teams create big impact - #318 - Daniel Glenn & Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change)

Videos

• Episode #276 - Examples of using Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Microsoft Teams - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys)
• The Top 5 Super Powers of Copilot Pro - April Dunnam (Microsoft)
• Power Apps Upcoming Features and other Settings - Shane Young (PowerApps911)
• Page Templates - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting), Derek Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting), Patrick Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting), Marc Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) & Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting)
• Sharing Code in SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Projects: NPM vs. Library Components - Andrew Connell (Voitanos)

Samples

Check out all cool samples from community and from Microsoft. You can access all of them from the Unified Microsoft 365 & Power Platform sample gallery at https://aka.ms/community/samples.

Upcoming events

Here are the upcoming events from the centralized Community Days site where you can find in-person, hybrid and online events for Microsoft 365 and more.

• AMS Luxembourg 2024 - January 30, 2024 - Luxembourg
• Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2024 - February 1-2, 2024 - Tallinn, Estonia
• Microsoft 365 Community Day Miami - February 2-3, 2024 - Miami, FL, USA
• M365 Community Days at Sea 2024 - February 4-11, 2024, Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas, USA
• M365 Saturday DC - A Community Day Event - February 10, 2024 - Reston, VA, USA
• M365 Revival - February 15, 2024 - Oslo, Norway
• M365 Community Day - Phoenix - January 13-14, 2024 - Tempe, AZ, USA
• YYC Microsoft Community Day - February 24-25, 2024 - Calgary, Canada
• Digital Workplace Conference New Zealand - February 26-28, 2024 - Christchurch, New Zealand
• CollabDays Utah - March 1-2, 2024 - Sandy, Utah, USA
• North American Cloud and Collaboration Summit - April 9-12, 2024 - Irving, TX, USA
• Microsoft 365 Conference - April 30, May 1 & 2, 2023 - Orlando, FL, USA
• European Collaboration Summit - May 14-16, 2023 - Wiesbaden, Germany

Additional resources

• PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the community
• Check out all the great community calls, SDKs, and tooling for Microsoft 365 and Power Platform from https://aka.ms/m365/community

If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions for Microsoft 365 engineering or visitors – please let us know. We will do our best to address your requests or questions.

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